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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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That your Petitioner has not rested night or days
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has suffered the greatest against and distress of
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mind on account of her Sons Imprisonment
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Your Petitioner humbly supplicates your
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Honor and the Court to extend their
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Mercy to the Prisoner and to remit
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the sentence the Prisoner being
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conscious of his guilt and entreating to
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ash for giveness of your Honor and the
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Court and his wrongly offended Mistress
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That your Honor will deign to
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hear this Petition of a distressed widow
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and great her the desired Relief is
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the only hope she has to relieve her
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from despair and sorrow and
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Your Petitioner will ever Pray
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for the humanity and
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of your Honor.
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The contents of this Petition
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are true
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